VASTARIEN: Volume 5, Issue 2
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Cover art by David Bowman. Contributors include LC von Hessen, Alina Măciucă, Steve Rasnic Tem, Venezia Castro, Charles Wilkinson, Amelia Gorman, Agwam Kessington, Anzhelina Polonskaya, T.M. Morgan, and many more!
Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee
LC von Hessen
Ghost Woman in the Worm World
Amelia Gorman
Into the White
Steve Rasnic Tem
No Longer Remotely Human: Metamorphosis in the Horror of Junji Ito
Aleco Julius
The Outer Thread
Venezia Castro
Time is Like a Spider, Love Like a Dream
Michelle Muenzler
The Bleating Belfry
John Brownlee
Jellybean
John Paul Davies
The Bones of Small Mammals
Scott McNee
These Bones of Clay
Dyani Sabin
Postulation
Sophia Ashley
Pipes
Alina Măciucă
Ghosts, Always
David Rees-Thomas
The Other Sides of Doors
Charlene Elsby
Monster Seed
Agwam Kessington
Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece
Shawn Phelps
Disinfection
Matt Sadowski
Laugh Track
Shaoni C. White
Bird’s Eye Rhyolite
Sara Wilson
No Visitors
Charles Wilkinson
The Merchant of Places and Precious Things
Sofia Ezdina
Unraveling
Barbara A. Barnett
Word of Mouth
Stephen Hargadon
Remembering Five Generations of Mayfly History, on the Sixth and Last Day
Marisca Pichette
In Caelo, in Terra
Aaron Worth
The Conductor
Sarah Walker
Tectonic: a Conversation with the Gore-ious Maureen Tellani
T.M. Morgan
From Darkness, to Darkness
Anzhelina Polonskaya
The Mark
C. O. Davidson
Winter at the Provincial Station
Anzhelina Polonskaya
VASTARIEN: Volume 5, Issue 1
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Cover art by Jason Barnett. Contributors include Gwendolyn Kiste, Daniel Braum, Wendy N. Wagner, Joe Koch, Ivy Grimes, and many more!
Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood
Halogen Sky
Wendy N. Wagner
Twenty-Nine Palms in Reverse
Daniel Braum
The Devil’s Just Sitting There Laughing: The Uncanny American Landscapes of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Days of Heaven
Gwendolyn Kiste
Return to Office
Kristin Cleaveland
The Case Against the Dream
Armel Dagorn
Psithurism
T. M. Morgan
For the Night is Long, and I am Lost
Without You
Erica Ruppert
“Autopsy on a Puppet”: The Day of Lost
Illusion in Thomas Ligotti’s “Mad Night of Atonement”
Chris Brawley
Deep Sea Creature
Vivian Kasley
Leviathan
Lucy Frost
Town Called Malice
Lindz McLeod
Waiting for Golem
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Coded Dreams: Gender and Information Processing in The Great God Pan
Macy Harrison
Straw World
Erik McHatton
The Under Carnival
Logan Noble
Fugue
Joe Koch
The Flower Imposes Itself on the Ghost House
Kolbeinn Karlsson
This Attraction Now Open Till Late
Kyla Lee Ward
Itch in the Party House
Ivy Grimes
VASTARIEN: Volume 4, Issue 2
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Another double issue! Cover art by Anna Trueman and over 300 pages of all new stories, articles, lyric essays, poetry, hybrid pieces and visual art. Contributors include Hailey Piper, Carson Winter, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Greg Sisco, Joanna Parypinski, Dejan Ognjanović, Christi Nogle, Kurt Fawver, Ivy Grimes, Clint Smith, and many more!
Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood
The Unpleasant State of Beginning
Hailey Piper
Matsuri
Michael Uhall
The Mushroom Men
Carson Winter
Heartstrings
Philippa Evans
Sculpting
Mari Ness
She Ain’t Stoppin’
Christi Nogle
Fold
Gwen C. Katz
Night Mare
Stephanie M. Wytovich
On Borrowed Time
Greg Sisco
Voyeur
Tori Fredrick
Everything Will Be Okay
John Claude Smith
The Bloody Story of his Canvas: A Reading of “The Lost Art of Twilight”
George Prekas
How to Send the Dead (Assuming You’ve Cremated Them Against Their Dying Wish)
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Sometimes It’s Just Like Hiding
Georgia Cook
Down the Dark Hallway: An Essay on P.T.
Sean M. Thompson
A Walkthrough of Route X: Video Games and the Postmodern Gothic
Joanna Parypinski
Thy Structures Rear’d in Blood
Rhonda Eikamp
Vulture Eyes
Christa Carmen
Revenge and Envy Are Very Small Things: Cosmic Inconsequentialism in S. P.
Miskowski’s Skillute Cycle
S. L. Edwards
The Accursed Manor of the Mirrorlands
LC von Hessen
Anthropophagus
Sara Tantlinger
The Collected Poems of James Zjarek, Transgressor
Perry Ruhland
The Shining Path
Paul L. Bates
Lullaby
Jenny Darmody
Lonely Wordless Ghosts
Mari Ness
Red Knots Tightening
Emer O’Hanlon
The Three Paradigms of Horror
Dejan Ognjanović
The Gyrification of Violence
Clint Smith
The Food Fellow
Ivy Grimes
This Story Will Kill You
Kurt Fawver
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All Color Issue — Cover art by Danielle Hark and 13 illustrations by Danielle Hark, Giuseppe Balestra, Donyae Coles, Rhiannon Rasmussen, and Michael Sawecki.
Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood
Vertices
Simon Strantzas
You Eat What You Are
Christina Ladd
“Her Chill, Shuttered Room”: Patriarchal Oppression on Female Agency in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love”
Shawn Chang
Science Explains Why Saturn Ate His Children
Amelia Gorman
So Low in Flesh, So High in Bone
Vajra Chandrasekera
Black Light
Nelson Stanley
A Martyrology For Museums: Ekphrastic Tales of Horror
S.R. Mandel
The Perceptual Inconstancy of Enid Wozniak
Frank Oreto
Feminist Pasts and Dystopian Futures: (Re)Visiting Herland
E. F. Schraeder
Attend, Attend
Shenoa Carroll-Bradd
Bagley’s Correction
Liam O’Brien
A Nightmare Stay, I Wish I Could Give This Negative Stars
N.R. Lambert
“The House of Asterion” : death of a solipsistic Minotaur, apotheosis of a metaphysical monster
Denis Moreau
Consuming the unknown fruit: a guide
Michelle Muenzler
Come Winter
Michelle Muenzler
The Sculptor
Samuel M. Moss
Machina Obscura
Tobias Reckermann
A Tyranny of Tongues
Michael Uhall
The Grave of Angels
Erica Ruppert
The Main Street Robbery
Michael Canfield
The Woman Who Was Seen
DeAnna Knippling
The Spring Burn
Kurt Newton
End of the Milky Way
Kristin Peterson
Floaters
LH Michael
Only Business
Matt Neil Hill
Twinning
Rhiannon Rasmussen
VASTARIEN: Volume 3, Issue 2 — DOUBLE ISSUE
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Our first double issue! Original cover art and 13 original, full color illustrations by living legend Harry 0. Morris.
Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood
Year in White
Alex Jennings
Heath Crawler
Sam Hicks
Homeownership and You
Kurt Fawver
Roscoe’s Malefic Delights
LC von Hessen
Konrad
Rhonda Pressley Veit
your AI girlfriend named “it”
Rae White
I Wake Up and Remember Myself
Michael Griffin
The Psychic Surgeon
Cody Goodfellow
Stoneborn
Nina Shepardson
Her Lullaby
Casilda Ferrante
Gunfire and Brimstone
Alicia Hilton
Win Big
Carson Winter
[Applause]
Joshua Plack
A Spectre Haunting Detroit: On Corporate Horror and Historical Materialism
Alex Skopic
Theory of Forms
Sarah L. Johnson
There’s Something Wrong with Henry
Eddie Generous
Lessons in Etymology for the New Human
Korbin Jones
Secret Voice of Fire
Casilda Ferrante
Drinking from the Incantation Bowl
Sonya Taaffe
You Are the Arm
J.A.W. McCarthy
Music for a Peripheral Companion
Timothy G. Huguenin
Deprimer
Mike Thorn
APOCTATRYPTAMIN®
T. M. Morgan
Brood Five
Lora Gray
Hecatomb
Tiffany Morris
Grooming my Grandfather
David Stevens
Dear Will
Tim Major
Death Doll
Roberta Gould
Picturing Her Hands
Ivy Grimes
The Hole in the Wall is Oblivion
John Claude Smith
Phases of the Shadow
Jessica Ann York
The Inexhaustible Rhyme of Nature
Dmitry Blizniuk
Music for a Peripheral Companion
Timothy G. Huguenin
Oh the Beautiful Stink
Matthew M. Bartlett
On the Adaptation of “The Frolic” from Prose to Screen
John Palisano
Dissolutions
Miguel Fliguer
Advice I Wish I’d Been Given When I Was a 12-Year-Old Girl about to Watch The Exorcist for the First Time
Chelsea Davis
Mount P
Denise Robbins
Vastarien Vol. 3, Issue 1 – Contents
VASTARIEN: Volume 3, Issue 1
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Moriya
Dean Paschal
The Querent
Samantha Bolf
To her Lord, the Almighty, upon the reviving of Ezekiel’s bones
M. Christine Benner Dixon
Objects of Desire and Dreams of Objectification in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories
Deborah Bridle
Common Plants of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Jill Winsby-Fein
Mus Musculus–Wet Specimen, Felis Catus–Full-Body Mount
Avra Margariti
Judas Goat
Elliott Gish
The Hollow Songs of Father Prester
S. L. Edwards
The Way of Silence
Ramon Elani
The Book
Amar Benchikha
The Mania of the Unforgotten
Pete Rawlik
Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Marginalia in a Cadaveric Atlas
Wade German
The Prettiest Girl
Christopher Ropes
The Aspen Wretch
Daphne Gem Host
We’ve All Gone to the Magic Show
Todd Keisling
The Park of Eternally Loitering Fathers
Adrian Van Young
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Vastarien Vol. 2, Issue 3 – Contents
Ascending Phases of First Contact
Matt Thompson
How to Make a Marionette
Patricia Lillie
H. P. Lovecraft and H. R. Giger: The Maestros and Their Muses
John A. DeLaughter
Recuerdos de patay (Images of the Dead)
Zeny May Dy Recidoro
The Flooded Cellar
Daniel Stintzi
Over the Black Bridge: Expansion, Psychogeography, and the Living City in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg
Farah Rose Smith
Every Nowhere
Matthew B. Hare
Interview with T. E. D. Klein
Dejan Ognjanović
Maddening Manikins: The Atmospheric Machines of Poe and Ligotti
Sean Moreland
Radix Malorum
Sean Patrick Hazlett
Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Perceptual Crisis, Identity, and the Rented Flat
Jubel Brosseau
We Are Not Ourselves
Joanna Parypinski
Mapping Catharsis
P. A. Glazier
Pavement
Robert S. Wilson
how to watch a horror movie about grief when you’re grieving
Daryl Sznyter
The Filling
Annie Neugebauer
After I devoured the Beast
Charlotte Begg
Unravelling
David. F. Shultz
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Clematis, White and Purple
D. P. Watt
like crickets
Robin Gow
not other’s tongues
Robin Gow
types of knife blades:
Robin Gow
The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm
Eden Royce
The Pelt
Christi Nogle
Silences
Lucy A. Snyder
Visions of the Gothic Body in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories
Deborah Bridle
Eyestalk
C. M. Crockford
Daddy’s Departure
Danielle Hark
The Sprite House
Trent Kollodge
Sirens in the Night
Paul L. Bates
Thomas Ligotti: The Abyss of Radiance
S. C. Hickman
The Milk Man
Alana I. Capria
Trans Woman Gutted
Valin Paige
What Found Nevaeh
Donyae Coles
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Vastarien Vol. 2, Issue 1 – Contents
Venio
Gemma Files
The Lord is an Active Shooter
Fiona Maeve Geist
The Sisters
F.J. Bergmann
Horror Religiosus: The Dark Passions of Mark Samuels
David Peak
The Curse of the Biblical Magi
S. G.
Aharesia
Natalia Theodoridou
Silhouette Golems
S. E. Casey
Orchid Architecture
K. A. Opperman
All the Stage is a World
Forrest Aguirre
Burger Shop
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
Rat King
Lia Swope Mitchell
Vanpool
C. M. Muller
Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Gwendolyn Kiste
The Ageless Agelasts
Rhys Hughes
In the Way of Eslan Mendeghast
Farah Rose Smith
Effigies of Former Supervisors
Matthew M. Bartlett
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five dreams of the red tower
s.j. bagley
The Rules and Regulations of White Pines, Vermont
Kurt Fawver
Long Time, No See
F.J. Bergmann
Richard Gavin: The Nature of Horror
S.T. Joshi
The Mad German
Michael Uhall
I Feel Better Now
Brooke Warra
The Glow at Home
Rayna Waxhead
The Ghosts of Their Guns: Magical Realism in the Fiction of Nadia Bulkin
S.L. Edwards
Chronology of a Burn
Tonya Liburd
The Blind Opera
Sean M. Thompson
Nightmares
Desiree Zamarano
“The Clown Puppet” — A Case Study
Michael Cisco
The Nightmare Man
L’Erin Ogle
Ennigaldi
Sam Schreiber
Trauma Narrating
Dr. Raymond Thoss
For She is Falling
John Linwood Grant
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Commencement
Joanna Parypinski
Patent for an Artificial Uterus
Max D. Stanton
The Crafter of the World
Ashley Dioses
Bequeathing the World to Insects
Christopher Mountenay
Trigger
Julie Travis
The Master Gardener
Nicole Vasari
Parasitic Castration
Amelia Gorman
The November House
Charles Wilkinson
Lacan on Lynch: Viewing Twin Peaks through a Psychoanalytic Lens
Rob F. Martin
soul of a mannequin
Justyna Bendyk
Shirley Jackson and That Old Black Magic
Jill Hand
How to be a Horror Writer
Tim Waggoner
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